Africa-Press – Nigeria. A rights group, International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule, Intersociety, has claimed that 102 Christians have been killed within a period of 14 days in Nigeria.
This was contained in a report made available to journalists on Monday in Enugu.
Intersociety said the period, between Oct 28-Nov 11, also witnessed the abduction of 114 others by people it called Jihadist militants.
The report was signed by Emeka Umeagbalasi, Head, Intersociety, Obianuju Joy Igboeli, Human Rights Lawyer/Head, Dept. of Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Ogochukwu Obi, Deputy Head, Dept. of Int’l Justice and Human Rights and Comrade Samuel Kamanyaoku, Head, Field Data Collection and Documentation Department.
According to the report, an average of seven Christians have been killed daily and eight abducted in fourteen days.
It provided details as follows: “34 killed in Taraba, 22 in Plateau, 16 in Kaduna, 15 in Benue, 4 in Borno, 1 in Edo plus ‘dark figures’ of ten”, adding that “50 abducted in Kaduna, 30 in Taraba, 6 in Plateau, 6 in Benue, 12 in Kogi/Kwara axis plus ‘dark figures’ of 10.”
Intersociety said the report was to statistically declare “that there is no end in sight in the coordinated attacks against Nigeria’s defenseless Christians”.
It alleged that no fewer than eight Christian clerics have been killed and several ancestral homes and lands belonging to defenseless Christian population especially in Kaduna, Benue, Plateau, Taraba and Borno, sacked.
“The situation of Nigerian Christians and their sacred places of worship has remained dangerously unchecked especially since Nov 1, 2025 when the US Government hinted on possible military action should the Nigerian Government continue to fail to take concrete steps to end the egregious killing of Christians and destruction of their sacred places of worship.
“From Intersociety’s statistical records, the number of Islamic terror groups digitally and physically headed to Nigeria where they presently occupy various rainforest Locations-Christian dominated areas numbering about 24, including the JNIM Islamic terror group as one of them.
The JNIM is a deadly Islamic terror group operating in Mali and the Sahel region which recently announced the establishment of ‘its first brigade in Nigeria’.
“There are also scores of new Islamic terror groups heading or headed into Nigeria to swell the number of such terror groups troubling the country, especially the defenseless Christian population and their sacred places of worship, living and livelihood.”
The organisation said it expect to see the present Nigerian Government and its Presidency rising to the occasion by overhauling ministries of defense and interior and office of the NSA “and thereafter issue firm and matching orders to security, defense and intelligence forces and their Service Chiefs, especially the Armed Forces and their High Commands to go after the Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen and allied others and have them flushed out or obliterated.”
“By fresh statistics at our disposal, nothing seems to have been done to practically and concretely remedy the situation till date.”
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